A stitch in time . . .

I'm not really a nit picker, but I do believe in checking and re-checking. I do believe in a stitch in time saving nine. Indeed, prevention is better than cure. It's better to secure the barnyard door before the animals take off . . .. Yada, yada, yada. So when I read that "in February, police arrested an LeT terrorist organization-linked Indian named Faim Ansari after an attack on a police station and he was carrying road maps of Mumbai, highlighting several important landmarks of south Mumbai that became the target of last week's terrorist attack" I felt outraged.

Couldn't the police who arrested Ansari and put him behind bars in February found out why he was carrying those marked maps? Amazing how simple but timely questions can avoid so many later disasters. Why aren't people who are paid to ask questions and find answers don't even ask the right questions. Occasionally, when they do, it's too late.

What's so difficult about understanding that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Now the authorities admit there were security lapses. Duh!

It's true that it's not easy to protect every single individual in a wide open democracy like India, but this is no excuse to leave the people vulnerable en masse. Looks like much more damage could have occurred. It was a stroke of luck that the explosives left behind at the station did not explode. They were of course discovered only after a whole week had passed since the attack.

Someone who had experienced the 9/11 WTC decimation in 2001 as well as the Mumbai Massacre declared that the fear factor in the latter one was decidedly more nerve racking than the one, two, three, finished feeling experienced on 9/11. Again, however, one thing that does stand out in both cases is, the terrorists had outsmarted us.

Officials don't want to acknowledge that each time the terrorists succeed at what they set out to do that it's a victory for them. Again, going back to my complaint in another post about not accepting reality for what it is, if we continue hoodwink ourselves into believing all kinds of untruths, eventually, truth will catch up with us.

Master Charles Cannon, the founder of Synchronicity Foundation whose fellow spiritualist Alan Scherr, 58, and his daughter Naomi, 13, died during the attack, claims that we are not victims of the terrorists but victors. Of course, I don't understand this logic. Maybe, my brain doesn't work at that high a level!

Another religious person interviewed on TV when questioned about where God's sympathies lay in all this said that God was not with the terrorists but with those who miraculously survived. This kind of scores a few points for God though it doesn't score any points for the officials who let the people of Mumbai down. Well, these officials aren't godly enough, I guess.

I pray and hope terrorism too along with all other scourges gets eradicated soon. Let's all do our bit.

Ciao!
Ro.